The NYPD’s use of drones as a strategic, emergency response saves lives on our subway system and streets,” the department ...

The rollout of the technology comes after seven people drowned at the city’s public beaches last summer, the most since 2019.

A photo obtained by The Post shows an NYPD officer holding ... spokesperson told The Post that the drone was used in a demonstration of its clean energy technology three years ago, and had been ...

The drones, which have also been used to respond to tragedies like a garage collapse and recent brush fires in the city, do not contain facial recognition technology, the NYPD has said.

He told lawmakers the NYPD currently has 85 drones and, in 2023 ... Albert Fox Cahn founded the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. He says the department's use of drones violates the ...

The program is an expansion of ongoing efforts to use technology in policing. With the launch, there are 100 total drones in use throughout the New York City Police Department (NYPD), though they ...

this kind of drone use does indeed feel dystopian — or, as Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project put it to The Record, as if the NYPD was treating "Black Mirror" as an ...